The next day.
I'm currently at the banquet of the devils. I was caught by the Pure Banshee yesterday.
Right in front of me is the corrupted food and waters that the devils consume as their daily nutrition aside from absorbing souls, but this is harmful to creatures who are not of the same race with these devils present around the Table of Hell.
The banshee is sitting right beside me. Sweats are all over my forehead as I come to notice the presence of satan coming out from another portal leading to the corrupted butcher's house.
"So, how are you feeling for your first day to senior highschool bud?" The devil had shown himself and talked, putting me under a spell where I am forced to talk.
'I can't let him win over the control of my mouth' I thought trying to resist his heavy presence.
I looked at him and I saw that he is waiting for my reply while sitting at the table in front. I know this situation, it's one of those moments when the strong enemy waiting for the captive to respond to the inquisition and if the captive failed to respond, death is the only thing that awaits them.
'I have to survive' I said inside my thought.
"Uhhm, I'm nervous, but I can do it dad" everything was gone and I think I was transported back to the real world as I felt anxious.
Yeah, today is my first day to senior high school and I'm actually not feeling good about it.
I hate it, I hate people, I hate stares, I hate attention, I hate places where there are a lot of people. I just hate people in general. They are so normal and they follow stupid social constructs and standards that don't even concern the survival of the human race. At some point, I even want to obliterate them from existence but I know that I cannot use my powers to harm anything or anyone in this realm as it is forbidden by this one god.
The god that is worshipped by the majority of humans in this plane. The one they called "the one true god" where in fact there are a lot of gods. It's the same thing for the creatures living in other planes most of them also believed in one god except for those civilizations who have grasped the pinnacle of understanding about reality and existence.
Agh!
Before I could show my distaste towards people, my mother interrupted me. "and please dear, don't make your classmates feel weird about you. If you want to make friends then please refrain from all the demons, gods, magic, and all the shenanigans going inside your head" She said while enunciating those terms and looked at me seriously.
I saw my father chuckled at what my mothers had said. She even made gestures when she said those things.
' I don't need any friends anyways. With all the adventures I can get by traversing planes and using magic, it's more than enough to keep me companied' I thought, disagreeing with my mother.
"I'll try," I said while pouting my lips slightly with my head down. I just have to. For respect. Even though they don't understand me, I still love them very deeply.
"Good, and also have fun today," she said while smiling, feeling contented with my answer, and kissed my forehead.
I finished my meal and head towards my room to take a bath and prepare for school.
Arriving in front of the school campus, I noticed the students going inside the gate. Some are talking with each other, mostly girls. They are just having fun and enjoying each other's company.
"Good luck bud" My father drove me here and bid me good luck while patting my head. He smiled looking at me and I replied with a nod.
Agh!
I rolled my eyes inside my mind, cuz obviously I cannot show my disinterest in getting noticed and being around people.
I arrived at my classroom, 1E. I'm very anxious and agitated by now. I just hope that no one would notice me so that I can just enter and find my place to be alone peacefully.
I opened the door slowly and entered very quickly while looking at the floor hoping that I could not meet anyone's eyes, but then I bumped into someone that made me fall back to the ground.
Tsk.
Why would anyone be sturdy as a wall enough to hurt my head!? I exclaimed in my thoughts as I tried to fix myself to stand up while still looking on the ground.
'Please..please..this is not a big scene so please if anyone is watching. Don't stare' I mumbled to myself as if uttering a spell.
"Ohh, I'm so sorry man. I wasn't looking" the man whom I bumped into said.
While still looking down and standing up, I saw his big hand with veins visible in it. He is offering help I guess, but I just stood up and directly get walked away from the scene. I did not even saw his face and anyone's face because all this time I am looking at the floor.
While walking near a corner, I saw a table with no one and this is the last chair at the back near the window. I quickly settled myself in the place and positioned my head and arms in the desk for a sleep before the class will start.
Ring!
The bell rang for the first subject. I woke up from my short sleep and fixed myself. I finally took a look at the classroom. I saw everyone's back from this place. They're all looking at the board while waiting for a teacher to come.
Two people that I particularly noticed. The first one is the guy that I think the person had bumped me earlier. I'm looking at his side right now because he is sitting in the middle row and I'm at the back third row on the right side. The reason that I know that it's him is because of his hand resting on the desk. It's the same hand that I saw earlier. This person is tall, I can see it even he is sitting. He has fair white skin and a toned body, not bulky but enough to be noticed that he has a good physique. This is what the standard of a man that girls would want that is built by society.
Tsk
I clicked my tongue.
The other one is the person that really caught my interest. He is sitting at the last desk of the middle row, so I can clearly see him. He is on my left and only the small aisle separates us. He has glasses and his face is very serious as if he is going to do something very important. The one thing that I noticed and find very interesting is that he seems to be gesturing at something on his desk.
He moved his hands on the desk and rested it with his palm facing the wooden flat surface and then he suddenly raised his palm leaving only the tip of his ten fingers touching the table. After a pause, he then started moving his fingers as if typing on a keyboard.
I frowned. What I am seeing right now is very weird, but then I covered my mouth with both hands and lowered my head.
WAHAHAHAHAHAH!
I laughed sinisterly inside my head because of what I was thinking. I actually thought of someone to be weird. This is so funny.
I slowly raised my head and looked at the person again. This time I can hear a piece of operatic thrilling music playing in the background. I just ignored the background, thinking that It's just my mind creating the music, but then I noticed that the person I'm looking at stopped from what he was doing. He is now looking confused and looking in different directions as if he is looking for something.
A moment after I saw him acting strange. Everything went silent. I immediately looked at the surrounding. I can see everyone else is talking. Their mouths are moving but I can't hear any sounds coming from them. I looked at the bird outside the window, resting in one of the branches of the tree. The birds are also opening their beaks but no sound at all.
I'm starting to get worried. 'Did I lost my hearing?' I thought. My hands started shaking. I'm very worried. I don't want to be a deaf person. "No, no, no" I muttered starting to panic but I could not even hear my own voice.
I looked at the strange person again, but this time, I saw that he had fallen asleep at his desk. I quickly ignored him and took my bag feeling very scared of what is happening to me.
I immediately ran towards the door while looking on the floor. Gladly, I did not bump into anyone or anything. I just want to go home and tell my parents that lost my hearing.
Thinking of the thought of losing my hearing is scary.
I ran through the hallway and tears started to form in my eyes, but then out of a sudden, I heard something. 'I can hear! my hearing is back!' this is the first thing that came out of my mind, but that sound was very loud. It was a sound that an alligator makes but that was on a different spectrum compared to any loud animals. It is very loud that even made the whole building vibrate from the soundwave.
"Ancestors above! I thank you for giving me back my hearing" I immediately kneel on the floor to thank the heavens. At this moment, joy could be felt in my heart for the reason that I got back my hearing forgetting the idea that a very loud sound just made the school building vibrate.
What happened just now already sank in my mind. 'Where could be that loud sound came from?'
'Maybe there is an event in the school and they rented a very big speaker for it' I tried to find a rational reason for the cause of that sound, so I looked through the hallway's window and check if there is really an event going on right now.
I found nothing. This made me more confused about what is happening. Just a while ago I lost my hearing and then a very loud sound came out of nowhere.
As I kept looking through the window for a possible source of the loud sound, I saw a ginormous figure flying above the campus. It covered the sun and cast its shadow towards the whole school. This made me fall to the floor as I was very shocked.
While on the floor I saw that it has a very big tail. Similar to those of the dinosaurs. This thing also has a very big pair of bat wings. Based on what I'm seeing, I realized something that is very surreal. It's a "dragon" like in the books that I have read. This is unbelievable!, Yes! a fucking dragon! Holy shit! I immediately rubbed my eyes and looked at the sky again while I'm on the floor. It's real! the dragon is still there, but this time, I noticed that there's something going on its body. It's like glitching like what a computer screen looks like when it's glitching. Some parts of its body would disappear and appear again. I saw that the glitch started to affect its whole body immediately. The ginormous creature is now flickering and after a few more flickers, it disappeared.
What! what was that? I literally just screamed in the hallway.
I am still trying to process what just happened while sitting on the floor, but before I could move my body to stand up, my vision suddenly blurs and my consciousness is slowly fading away. I felt the pain as I fell to the floor again, but I could not move my body and there is this feeling that I just want to peacefully sleep pulling me into the void of dreams.
'comfortable' was the last word that I had thought before drifting into a deep slumber.